11 posts and columns on prison

Viral Video: “Lock-Out” — Sci-Fi Prison Break in Space

in Media on January 30 at 12:45 am PT

Prison revolt. In space. Gadgets.
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Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point

in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT

Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.
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Facebook Bars Jailbirds

in Social on August 9, 2011 at 9:57 am PT

Now among the liberties stripped from convicted California felons: Access to Facebook.
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QOTD: Rip Van Winkle 2.0

I’ve never logged onto Facebook before but I hear it’s nice. In terms of e-mail, Facebook has it built in.

Former “spam king” Robert Soloway, who has spent the last three years and eight months away from his computer while serving a federal prison sentence. Soloway, who was released last week, sent out 10 trillion emails during a 10-year spam career. Probation officers will monitor his computer use for the next three years.

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Apology for Turing's Treatment Stirs the Twittersphere

in News on September 14, 2009 at 4:55 am PT

In life, Alan Turing helped win World War II and sowed the seeds for the modern computer industry. In death, the persecuted British mathematician may provide some lessons about how public opinion reverberates in cyberspace. Responding to a petition posted on the Web site for Number 10 Downing Street, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown late Thursday apologized for what he characterized as the “appalling” treatment of Turing 55 years earlier by British officials.

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Barring 11th-Hour Reprieve, Nacchio to Report to Prison Tuesday

in News on April 14, 2009 at 11:56 am PT

When we last used our waterfall metaphor in regard to Joe Nacchio, the former Qwest CEO convicted two years ago on insider-trading charges, an inquiring reader asked if we’d bring Nacchio back up the fall if and when the Supreme Court reversed his conviction. Our answer: absolutely.

Doggonit, Palin Email Hacker a Maverick Too!

in News on October 9, 2008 at 5:06 am PT

Five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. That’s the maximum sentence facing the Tennessee college student who was indicted today on charges that he broke into Gov. Sarah Palin’s private email account last month.

Sanjay Kumar Goes to White Castle Prison

in News on September 4, 2008 at 12:05 pm PT

If I go down, you all go down. That’s the personal philosophy former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar appears to have embraced after serving a few years in prison for conspiracy, securities fraud and obstruction of justice. In a 27-page affidavit filed in court Tuesday, the disgraced Kumar claims that several current and former directors were aware of the company’s … generally unaccepted accounting practices and concealed them from government investigators.

Facebook Denies Responsibility for Morocco's Lousy Sense of Humor

in Social on February 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook page. [...]

Facebook Denies Responsibility for Morocco’s Lousy Sense of Humor

in Social on February 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook page. [...]